Removed a/c Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) So because it was free originally that means it doesn't have a value? or am I missing something? Edited January 7, 2013 by thebritfarmer 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2013 the thread is about Ebay madness. If you don't think it's mad that somebody is selling something with no face value, no collectability value and no functional value that was given freely out by a charity, and two people have actually bid money for it - fair enough. I think it's mad. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2013 Colin, it does have a collectibility value to someone, hence the bidding. So things that were given away free have no place in an auction room and must not be bid upon? There are many items which are exactly thus and have strong resale values, the NatWest pigs for example. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2013 Nat west pigs maybe, two year old nat west leaflet on savings policies, nah, sorry I don't see it. If you don't agree fair enough. BTW I found out from the loco society's facebook page, and they clearly don't get it either! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 the thread is about Ebay madness. If you don't think it's mad that somebody is selling something with no face value, no collectability value and no functional value that was given freely out by a charity, and two people have actually bid money for it - fair enough. I think it's mad.I'd disagree. Just because it was free originally doesn't mean it has some collectability (for someone) and thereby has value. Just look at the market in used stamps - no longer having any face value and in the majority of cases hardly able to be called "rare" yet there is a market for them. The same could be said of many of the "railway" items that are sold on eBay as broken/damaged/or parts. So while you (and I) might think it is a little odd - I don't think it appears to be quite as mad as we might think. I think it is no different than the madness of selling/buying empty boxes or for that matter collecting railway models in unopened boxes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37255 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I've seen people bid for promo CDs by a band who still hand out said CDs free on their website, anything's possible on eBay! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2013 Not madness - don't write it it's just for fun! Something that will interest most readers of this column, and maybe make a hobby room for the dedicated LNER fan? Buyer collects. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LNER-1927-12-ton-Goods-Wagon-Full-Size-Would-Make-Engine-Shed-Garden-Shed-/221172733983?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33%26meid%3D4714084484481137330%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1031%26rk%3D1%26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2013 I'd buy it if I lived near Lincoln! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddys-blues Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Not madness - don't write it it's just for fun! Something that will interest most readers of this column, and maybe make a hobby room for the dedicated LNER fan? Buyer collects. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LNER-1927-12-ton-Goods-Wagon-Full-Size-Would-Make-Engine-Shed-Garden-Shed-/221172733983?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33%26meid%3D4714084484481137330%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1031%26rk%3D1%26 I'd be more worried if the frame fell apart as soon as you tried to hoist the thing onto the back of your transport !!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2013 Re the leaflet; I would have thought that railway and loco preservation ephemera would make a good subject for a collection. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2013 Reverting to madness, or at least an oddity, was there ever a prototype anything like this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-DETAILED-SCRATCH-BUILT-GWR-PARCELS-RAILCAR-OO-GAUGE-/170968758831?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27ce883a2f Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2013 Reverting to madness, or at least an oddity, was there ever a prototype anything like this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-DETAILED-SCRATCH-BUILT-GWR-PARCELS-RAILCAR-OO-GAUGE-/170968758831?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27ce883a2f Pete Yuk! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveb860 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Reverting to madness, or at least an oddity, was there ever a prototype anything like this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-DETAILED-SCRATCH-BUILT-GWR-PARCELS-RAILCAR-OO-GAUGE-/170968758831?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27ce883a2f Pete VERY DETAILED SCRATCH BUILT GWR PARCELS RAILCAR "Made of wood it is and requires a motor bogie to finish (Triang or simular) as well as glassing The fitted bogie is a alloy one fitted with finescale wheels" Yoda must be selling it, it would seem. Glassing, more like needs bricking. But it does have finescale wheels on the one and only bogie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Not madness - don't write it it's just for fun! Something that will interest most readers of this column, and maybe make a hobby room for the dedicated LNER fan? Buyer collects. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LNER-1927-12-ton-Goods-Wagon-Full-Size-Would-Make-Engine-Shed-Garden-Shed-/221172733983?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33%26meid%3D4714084484481137330%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1031%26rk%3D1%26 Keep the van - I'll give you £20 for the wagon plates ???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Keep the van - I'll give you £20 for the wagon plates ???? Use the van for firewood maybe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted January 8, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2013 Is that a "kit built" van? As usual with these kits, there are no wheels, so you have to buy them extra. Choice of 4' 8.5" or 4' 1.5" gauge. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 9, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2013 Re the leaflet; I would have thought that railway and loco preservation ephemera would make a good subject for a collection. Pete. I would agree. But what about the inserts that fall out of magazines onto the floor as soon as you pick up one up in the newsagents (unless the lot is in a plastic bag - sorry mods! But a time where the bag DOES have its merits - saves shop staff having to pick them up). By the way, do others agree that it is courteous to pick up the bits you've dropped? Surely stuff like the Hattons price list or even old Railway Book Club leaflets & going back further, the photo print suppliers - showing my age!, will never be worth money? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 9, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2013 Surely stuff like the Hattons price list or even old Railway Book Club leaflets & going back further, the photo print suppliers - showing my age!, will never be worth money? You could always put them on Ebay and see if anyone's mad enough....... Cheers, Mick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhBBob Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Probably not madness if you have the pieces to fit in the spaces - a description of those is given in the details - but I was not 'blown away' by it http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-O-Gauge-Empty-Le-Mistral-Box-/261153635418?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3ccdf83c5a I'll get me coat....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted January 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2013 Probably not madness if you have the pieces to fit in the spaces - a description of those is given in the details - but I was not 'blown away' by it http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-O-Gauge-Empty-Le-Mistral-Box-/261153635418?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3ccdf83c5a I'll get me coat....... Seems these things do sell though - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JEP-O-Gauge-Empty-Box-for-AP5-Train-Set-/251204769008?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a7cf894f0&nma=true&si=%2F4e1WtMgZtW6pZq8sF4hWOFhI%2FE%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted January 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2013 Not railway related but in view of the topic on boxes and packing this might be worth noting. Look up the price wanted for a dust jacket for the first edition of The Great Gatsby. That will make you eyes water. Just counting the zeros is a strain on my eyes. It does make some of the items in this thread seem quite sane. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Probably not madness if you have the pieces to fit in the spaces - a description of those is given in the details - but I was not 'blown away' by it http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-O-Gauge-Empty-Le-Mistral-Box-/261153635418?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3ccdf83c5a I'll get me coat....... But did you read the description... That's a long box, 449 x 44 cms..., that's almost 15' long x 1'6" wide... hmmm ?? Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
84A Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Just to go back to the C Classes temporarily, I noticed the other day that themodelcentre had listed this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TMC-Bachmann-31-460-BR-C-Class-Wainwright-0-6-0-592-SE-CR-Lined-Green-Weathered-/251211410697?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a7d5ded09 I decided to ask if they had any pristine ones left, but they said they hadn't. I can't help feeling they have shot theirselves in the foot with this one. If ever a model needed weathering, surely it isnt this one? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2013 (edited) "Pro Weathered" which presumably was done before the roof of the shed it was in burnt down.... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-oo-gauge-class-31-Dutch-31110-pro-weather-DCC-fitted-/251212274519?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a7d6b1b57 Edited January 12, 2013 by John M Upton 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2013 Not madness - don't write it it's just for fun! Something that will interest most readers of this column, and maybe make a hobby room for the dedicated LNER fan? Buyer collects. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LNER-1927-12-ton-Goods-Wagon-Full-Size-Would-Make-Engine-Shed-Garden-Shed-/221172733983?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33%26meid%3D4714084484481137330%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1031%26rk%3D1%26 Went for £340 - you wouldn't get this size of garden shed for that these days Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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